Band 5 Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioner - Weston-super-Mare inWeston-super-Mare inWeston-super-Mare PUBLISHED
FRI 15 NOV 2024
Candidates should possess a graduate or postgraduate certificate in Mental Health and Wellbeing, along with experience working with mental health needs and a strong ability to communicate empathically. Skills in assessment, planning, and organisational tasks are essential, as is the capacity to navigate emotional and distressing situations with sensitivity. The role requires effective teamwork, analytical judgment, and the ability to engage service users in their care while maintaining confidentiality and collaborating with external agencies as needed.
To work alongside service users, families, carers and multi-disciplinary team members to co-ordinate care, supporting collaborative decision-making about care and treatment.
To deliver a set of wellbeing-focused psychologically informed interventions, aligned to cognitive-behavioural principles, based on the best evidence available, that address problems often experienced by people with severe mental health problems.
- To work in collaboration with the individual service user and their family and carers as appropriate to develop care plans that are focused on strengths and are outcome based.
- To deliver specified wellbeing-focused psychologically-informed interventions, in line with best available evidence, under close supervision from a clinical psychologist or CBT therapist including:
- Behavioural activation and graded exposure.
- Teaching problem-solving skills.
- Improving sleep.
- Recognising and managing emotions.
- Guided self-help for bulimia and binge-eating.
- Building confidence.
- Medication support.
- To be responsive to service users' needs and choices; and uphold their right to be treated with dignity and respect.
- To include carers and families in line with the service user's wishes.
About us
Education and Qualification
A graduate certificate (Level 6) or postgraduate certificate (Level 7) delivering the national curriculum for Mental Health and Wellbeing Practitioners (Adult Specialist Mental Health)
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Experience and Knowledge
Experience of working with people with mental health needs gained through a graduate certificate or postgraduate certificate training with significant supervised practice
Experience running groups/activities
Experience working as part of a team
Experience of being supervised
Experience of analysing and communicating complex information verbally and in writing
Lived experience of mental health issues/difficulties
Skills
Communication/
Relationship skills
Able to establish and maintain empathic, supportive relationships with people in significant distress or who are cognitively impaired, their families and carers
Able to receive, understand and communicate confidential client information of a sensitive and often complex nature, including discussing care with family members within boundaries of confidentiality.
Able to communicate in a sensitive and reassuring manner, with empathy, and where appropriate reassurance.
Able to make good use of clinical supervision in a group and/or individual format
Liaise with other teams and services including external agencies as required for the wellbeing of service users.
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Analytical & Judgement skills
Able to assist in assessment and observation activities related to individuals health and wellbeing, arriving at judgments about how to respond within the care plan
Able to contribute to risk assessment drawing on complex and multiple sources of information, under clinical supervision
Able to analyse and synthesise multiple sources of information to contribute to the teams understanding and formulation of service users difficulties and development of a multi-disciplinary care plan
Planning & Organisational skills
Able to assist in planning and delivering psychologically-informed interventions to meet peoples health and wellbeing needs
Able to prioritise workload according to peoples changing needs and the priorities of the team
People Management/Leadership/Resources
Able to assist in maintaining own and others health safety and security
Monitor and maintain physical and/ or financial resources for a work area
IT skills
To be able to use basic computer skills to collect, collate and report on clients progress on a daily basis
Physical skills
Keyboard use
Fit to undertake any duties related to the role including physical interventions for the management of violence and aggression
Abilities
Mental Effort
Able to plan and deliver interventions with a variety of service users presenting with mental health difficulties, their families and carers and the clinical team, on a daily basis.
Able to concentrate on specific activities for up to an hour at a time.
Able to deal with conflicting demands in an unpredictable work pattern.
Able to work flexibly and adapt to each person as appropriate to their needs in a variety of settings.
Emotional Effort
Able to deal directly with distressing or emotional circumstances when they arise.
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